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King Edward VIII: An American Life

By Powell, Ted

The History of a History Man: Or, the Twentieth Century Viewed from a Safe Distance. The Memoirs of Patrick Collinson (Church of England Record Society)

By Patrick Collinson

In the Lion's Den: The Life of Oswald Rufeisen

By Tec, Nechama

The Grand Mufti: Haj Amin al-Hussaini, Founder of the Palestinian National Movement

By Elpeleg, Z., Himelstein, Shmuel

Bedpans And Bobby Socks: Five British Nurses on the American Road Trip of a Lifetime

By Fox, Barbara

Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine

By Shehadeh, Raja

German Boy: A Child in War

By Samuel, Wolfgang W. E.

Finding Tipperary Mary

By Phyllis Whitsell

The Israel-Arab Reader: A Documentary History of the Middle East Conflict

By Rubin, Barry, Laqueur, Walter

Eichmann before Jerusalem: The Unexamined Life of a Mass Murderer

By Stangneth, Bettina

The Mind of Adolf Hitler

By Langer, Walter

Descartes - An Intellectual Biography

By Gaukroger, Stephen

Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War Against the Palestinians

By Kimmerling, Baruch

Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah (Jewish Lives)

By Biale, David

The Biscuit Girls

By Davies, Hunter

These Wonderful Rumours!: A Young Schoolteacher's Wartime Diaries 1939-1945

By May Smith

Forgotten Voices of Dunkirk

By Levine, Joshua

Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience

By Alice Rothchild

Forgotten Fatherland: The Search for Elisabeth Nietzsche

By MacIntyre, Ben

Freedom from Fear: And Other Writings

By Suu Kyi, Aung San

The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 4)

By Robert A Caro

One Hundred Twentieth-Century Philosophers

By Brown, Stuart

Put Me Back On My Bike

By Fotheringham, WILLIAM

Foreigners: Three English Lives

By Phillips, Caryl

Sounds from Heaven: The Revival on the Isle of Lewis, 1949-1952

By Colin & Mary Peckham

A Strange Kind of Glory: Life of Sir Matt Busby and Manchester United

By Dunphy, Eamon

Labour Legislation and Public Policy: A Contemporary History (Clarendon Law S.)

By Davies, P.L., Freedland, Mark R.

Nine Suitcases

By Zsolt, Béla

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother: The Official Biography

By Shawcross, WILLIAM

Watching War Films With My Dad

By Al Murray, Murray, Al